Avis Budget Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides car and truck rentals, car sharing, and ancillary products and services to businesses and consumers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia, and Australasia.
It operates the Avis brand, which offers vehicle rental and other mobility solutions to the premium commercial and leisure segments of the travel industry; and the Zipcar brand, a car sharing network. Additionally, it operates the Budget brand, a supplier of vehicle rental and other mobility solutions focused primarily on more value-conscious customers, comprising Budget car rental and Budget Truck, a local and one-way truck and cargo van rental business with a fleet of approximately 19,000 vehicles. These vehicles are rented through a network of dealer-operated and company-operated locations that serve the light commercial and consumer sectors in the continental United States.
The company also operates various other car rental brands, such as Payless, Apex, Maggiore, Morini Rent, FranceCars, AmicoBlu, Turiscar, and ACL Hire and McNicoll Hire, as well as TurisPrime and RubyCa.
In addition, it offers optional insurance products and coverages, such as supplemental liability, personal accident, personal effects protection, emergency sickness protection, automobile towing protection, and cargo insurance products. The company also provides fuel service options, roadside assistance services, electronic toll collection services, and access to satellite radio, mobile WiFi devices, GPS navigation, and child safety seat rentals.
Moreover, Avis Budget Group offers automobile towing equipment and other moving accessories, such as hand trucks, furniture pads, and moving supplies. It also features Avis Budget Group Business Intelligence, an online portal complete with rental summary dashboards, visualizations, and detailed reports.
The company was formerly known as Cendant Corporation and changed its name to Avis Budget Group, Inc. in September 2006. Avis Budget Group, Inc. was founded in 1946 and is based in Parsippany, New Jersey.
